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I wrote "Tom will be getting one to test - or so I have been told - no details available."
And either I misunderstood what I was told or they changed their minds - in any case, at this time, no more test units are being sent out.

I looked back through lots of my old posts and can't find where I promised Tom or anybody else that they would get a detector to test. in fact on 6 Jan 20, I specifically stated that I had no influence over who would be chosen to test the AQ or any other FTP product.
I expect to have AQ's in limited numbers and at a low rate to sell. If Tom wants one he knows how to reach me.

There are no plans to send any further AQ’s out for testing. Once they are launched, they will be for sale. The one I had is now in the hands of a new owner - a very experienced water hunter.
The launch will be somewhat unconventional and I can not say more now. Hopefully details will be made available soon by Fisher.
The whole saga of this device has been differentt - unique in fact. A des

Die out more slowly is EXACTLY the desired result - and rightly so.
If we exceed the capacity of our healthcare system, like would occur by doing nothing - untold thousands more will die because they will never get care. If it is stretched out, there will be hope of saving many of the seriously ill.
The other reason for spreading it out is to give time to explore medical treatments which m

Folks might broaden their exposure to facts and others’ opinions a bit,
Confirmation bias is a killer. Folks who only access sources which make them feel comfortable with what they currently believe to be true.
Every single change in public law in the US in the direction of protection of workers rights, and social security (with two small s’s) has been vigorously opposed by the folks whose

Doc, easy to miss a note in a flood of information.
As for other posts,I think unemployment insurance is a pretty “centrist” part of our social safety net. I suspect even the Tea Party (RIP) wasn’t against that.

Doc, get better glasses.
The issue is not money, it is that the existing administration for unemployment Bennies can’t cope with the demand backlog. This from Bloomberg.
“ Money’s not the problem, Managing Director Sanna Alamaki said in letters to members sent through April 1. It’s “that the benefit applications can’t be processed and, consequently, money can’t be paid out quickly enough,”

Shakira made a hit with “these hips don’t lie”
By the end of the year we will see “these stats don’t lie”
I hope I’m wrong, but it looks like delay, deny, etc, will cost us a lot of fellow citizens dying alone.
It’s all well and good to argue for your favorite sports star or politician.
We knew in early January that it was coming - never mind what Theodore Roosevelt failed to do abou

It is widely believed that the fall of France in 1940 was basically because if extreme political Division. Leon Blum was a left wing political figure and the saying “Better Hitler than Leon Blum” was apparently common.
When a people begin to hate their enemies more than they love their children - they are doomed.
How about we “ease up” a bit and figure out what our lives will be like after

“ Southern border- yeah Corona could have come through there last summer and we would be now!! ”
Corona continues to come through the southern border.
The beer!!!
There was no Corona virus (Covid 19) last summer in humans.

A quote today from you know who..DT
“ I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go to major hospitals, sometimes they have 2 ventilators."
He really said this today - my pointing this out this is not political - we are at war with a relentless enemy and this is saying we don’t need weapons. I don’t care how many rounds of ammo you have, if you’re have s

Don’t know Goodmore. This has scared the crap out of a lot of companies who blindly offshore their production to China - and made even bigger companies like Apple thoughtful about the “all the eggs in one basket” aspect of their current supply chain.

The Mayor of El Paso issued a shutdown order of all “non-essential” businesses. First Texas Products - “FTP” (Fisher, Teknetics, Bounty Hunter) is in El Paso. A letter issued by the President of FTP, Tom Walsh.
So it looks like the factory will continue activities for industrial and security products, but the Treasere/Hobby lines will not be open. Working from home, administrative and customer

Actually. I thought that was the case also, but. in fact the aquarium disinfectant and the malaria pill have EXACTLY the same ingredient - Cloroquine Phosphate.
The difference is that the tablets are “buffered” with something so that. A 500mg tablet has only 300mg of the drug in it. Those poor folks consumed somewhere around 5 grams of pure stuff. - a fatal dose.

The fatality rate based on “confirmed cases” will always be high since we only test symptomatic folks. All the non-symptomatic ones aren’t included in the infected total, skewing the rate. One of the many problems of our totally screwing up our testing plans.

The chemical which the couple took chloroquine phosphate is the same substance in the prescription drug mentioned by Trump. One big difference - the tablets are controlled doses - 250 or 500 milligrams and the dose is 1 gram to start and then less to follow up for 3 days
Adults: An initial dose of 1 g (= 600 mg base) followed by an additional 500 mg (= 300 mg base) after six to eight hours and

The Biowar theory was talked about and given current feeling about China in much of the US, had a certain ugly attraction. It has pretty much been explored and discredited by folks with the expertise necessary. Here’s a recent article

Our local news reports that a man in his 60’s is dead and his wife is in critical condition after purchasing something like this
It’s the same drug that the President keeps hyping To fight COVID19, even though his edical advisers warn that it is by no means proven to be effective. Fair enough
But these geniuses figured out that it is sold to salt water aquarium enthusiasts as a trea

Steve - couldn’t agree more. My calculation’s only purpose was to put a bit of perspective around claims that lots of folks had CV19 “months” ago and nobody knew it. They were ill, it was not (supposedly) influenza, but that is no reason to suppose it was CV19. If it had been, given the infection rate and even a conservative estimate of the death rate - communities would have noticed.
Sadly, w

Lots of clever folks on this forum. I got interested in the supply chain issues with N95 masks cause I used to do Sourcing for 35 years or so. After wearing myself out reading stuff about non-woven melt blown fabric and the like, I came across folks who are trying to develop alternatives to the N95 masks which are in such desperately short supply. Here are a couple of links which might be of in

Doc, good catch - here’s a NYT article about it
And for those who think journalism is evil, here’s a couple of medical references
I just cleaned out a blocked drain, so I guess the fact that I almost gagged is a good sign!

Daniel - may you continue to b one of those folks who mostly mind their own business while keeping an eye on what’s going on.
When I retired my wife threatened to buy a tee shirt she saw in a nearby flea market - “Retirement - Half as much money - Twice as much husband.
I’m trying to sit out with the cat in the back yard more to lower the social pressure.

I don’t mean to discourage sharing information, but the point of my post was that the doubling rate of Covid 19 is pretty well established. I was feeling pretty smug about my calculations but then had to do some more checking after TN’s reply.
Sure enough, influenza has about the same doubling rate, so there goes my argument......but.
Two things. The death rate from the flu is pretty well e